Very few top managers have intimate knowledge of Siemens's sprawling businesses, ranging from medical equipment to trains.
Using their extensive knowledge of top-secret Soviet research projects during the cold war, they tried to find those with commercial potential.
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The exposure of Mr Khan, a metallurgist, as the hub of a network of nuclear-technology proliferation has left many seeing him as a fall-guy for crimes that could not have been committed without the knowledge of the army top brass.
That liability could be much higher at the most profitable firms, according to several people with knowledge of finances at some top law firms.
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Others with other fields of knowledge might well be able to top this one.
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In an interview last week on Secure Freedom Radio, Michael Braun, a former top Drug Enforcement Agency official, declared that such testimony could be absolutely indispensible to American efforts to protect our nation against the various threats of which this top drug-trafficker has first-hand knowledge.
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Lula denied any knowledge of the scheme that claimed his top aides, sent his approval ratings plummeting, and even threatened impeachment a year ago.
Mr Thurlbeck claimed that knowledge of phone hacking "went to the top" of the newspaper "but no further" in the media group.
The sense of importance surrounding the match was heightened by the knowledge that a win for either side would boost their top-four aspirations.
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Roger's love of music is legendary and his encyclopaedic knowledge of music is matched by the awesome fact that he owns every Top 10 single released since 1955.
Plenty of other candidates will fall by the wayside from lack of self-awareness and introspection, limited knowledge of a school, or the inability to stay organized and on top of the admissions process.
There is reportedly also preliminary evidence that directors of top brokerages illegally traded BW Resources shares for their own personal accounts, on insider knowledge that Macau gambling king Stanley Ho was on his way.
Disillusioned with what he had seen of the traditional top-down, government-funded social services model, and now equipped with some knowledge of business, Lance decided on a capitalistic approach.
He also takes with him decades of institutional knowledge at a time of transition for the department, which could get different top leadership after the city elects a new mayor this year.
Michael Hearty's role as Director General at Finance means he has a cross-government policy knowledge and has Whitehall experience, while James Price is highly regarded as the top man at Business and Enterprise, but is young and relatively new to the job, having spent most of his career in economic development.
In a notice on the top 10 list, the FBI described him as "a computer expert" with "above-average knowledge regarding computers, the use of the Internet, and security awareness".
In our CEO succession work, we find that organizations often assume that the COO or even the CFO, by virtue of their knowledge of the business and their familiarity to the board, are best positioned to take on the top role.
Having studied for five years under top Chinese professors, he now co-writes learned papers on Eastern medicine in Mandarin, drawing on a deep knowledge of ancient Chinese philosophy and cosmology.
The gulf in wages between the top of the game and the the lower levels is often a cause of debate and Ablett has first-hand knowledge of the problems that exist financially.
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